Futurama appears in the movie Unfaithful, released 10 May, 2002. It is unknown where it appears in the movie, but Fox is credited for its use in the film. Christopher Tyng is also credited for the song "Music from Futurama" in the soundtrack.

The Comedy Central Roasts are events hosted by Comedy Central, when a celebrity is made fun of by other celebrities. During the introduction to the Roast of William Shatner, clips of his appearances in movies and television shows were shown, including a clip of his appearance in the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".

In Mozilla's Firefox browser (version 3 or later), if you type "about:robots" in the address bar, a page will appear paying tribute to robots in popular culture. The last point is "Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten." This is a reference to Bender's catchphrase, "Bite my shiny metal ass!"

The tooltip for comic 233 says "They'd use that Futurama episode with Fry's dog, but even spambots cry at that". This references the CAPTCHA test to determine if a response is computer-generated, as well as very emotional nature of the episode "Jurassic Bark".

Ironically, one of the possible captcha questions that are presented upon editing an Infosphere article is "Did you cry when Seymour Asses died?"

In comic 482, the Planet Express Ship is visible, and a word balloon proclaims "Hey, a heaping bowl of salt!" This references "My Three Suns", where Fry mentions he once ate a heaping bowl of salt.

Macromeme

Clampsappears in a conversation with a Robot who has a CAPTCHA tattoo.

This short comedy news show is run by Machinima, a company that makes short films with popular video games, shows gameplay videos of video games, and shows video game trailers. ETC is their only show concerning non-video game things, and in their 58th episode(WARNING: video in link contains explicit language), the main focus of the show was the return of Futurama in 2010 after almost 7 years of being canceled.

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Music

Comedy

Australian comedian Josh Thomas, who has stated he is an atheist before, says on his album Things That I Have Said Before (released 23 March, 2010), at the end of the track "Other Sexy Stuff", that he follows Oprah Winfrey instead. This is possibly a nod to Oprahism in the episode "Hell Is Other Robots".

Rinkadink's 2004 track "Anyone Seen Bender?", from his album Rabbit from Darkside, samples dialogue between Bender and the Galactic Entity from "Godfellas"; it also samples a clip of Fry looking for Bender from the same episode. "Fry Through Space", a 2004 track by him and Mike Modular, samples various lines from "Space Pilot 3000".

Rock

The song "Bend It Like Bender!", from The Devin Townsend Project album Addicted (released 17 November, 2009), is a reference to Bender. Additionally, the song contains the line "Game's over, losers! I have all the money!", spoken by Bender in the episode "A Head in the Polls". The music video can be viewed here.

Publications

Comics

In an issue of the comic series 52 (#21, published September, 2006), the Australian mechanic Johnny Warrawa wears a welding mask shaped like Bender's face whilst repairing the droid head of the Red Tornado.

In Action Comics (#863, published May, 2008), a Legion of Super-Heroes comic, there is a plot involving aliens being sent to a prison camp. Among them is what appears to be Zoidberg and possibly Kif Kroker.

Deadpool / GLI - Summer Fun Spectacular

In the Deadpool / GLI - Summer Fun Spectacular, published July 2007, Bender can be seen on the television screen in the GLI headquarters.

The 17 September, 2009, issue of the single panel comic Off The Mark, created by Mark Parisi, features Leela trying to be chatted up by cyclops Mike Wazowski from the film Monsters, Inc., whilst his friend Sulley is at the bar with Fry and Bender.

Outer Orbit

The Planet Express Ship appears in an issue of the Dark Horse Comics miniseries Outer Orbit.

In issue 11 of Top 10, a discoloured Fry, Leela, and Bender can be seen in the background of the first frame of page 11. Nibbler is also featured two panels later wearing a shirt saying "Slam", a reference to the DC Comics' Message Board poster who suggested Nibbler as an Easter egg.

Mom was included in the 2007 Forbes list of the richest fictional characters. She was ranked at #4 with an estimated net worth of $15.7 billion. MomCorp was also included in the list of "The 25 Largest Fictional Companies" which estimated its sales at $291.8 billion.

Novels

In the sixth book of the Alex Rider series, Ark Angel (published 1 April, 2005), the CIA hide behind the pseudonym "Creative Ideas Animations". In their SoHo office, they sell, among others, Futurama original drawings.

Television

Animation

In an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force called "Bible Fruit" (aired 23 March, 2008), Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake have a discussion about watching Futurama. It is a joke about Futurama being removed from Adult Swim, as Comedy Central had bought the rights to the show.

Meatwad: Why don't you ask that TV if he minds showin' me some Futurama. I like me some Futurama.Shake: Well now we're too damn cheap to receive it, so go the hell over to Carl Central and watch it to your heart's content.Meatwad: Carl gets Futurama?Shake: He didn't even want it until we started watching it.

During the premiere skit in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, released 27 September, 2005, a reporter on the red carpet asks Stewie Griffin if Fox has any plans to bring back Futurama. Family Guy and Futurama were both animated series on Fox which were cancelled and subsequently aired on Adult Swim; at the time of release Family Guy was scheduled to return but Futurama was not.

Bender makes a non-speaking appearance in the episode "The Splendid Source", aired 16 May, 2010, who heard the dirty joke from Al Harrington and passed it on to Tom Tucker. Peter describes this as "oddly enough, for some reason".

In the episode "Dream Mutt" (aired 17 June, 2005) of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Wiggy Jiggy Jed's line "So you can lick my Candy-striped..." may be a reference to Bender's line of Bite my shiny metal ass.

In the episode "Cliffhangin' With Mr. Super" (aired 18 August, 2000) of the show The PJs, Fry makes a cameo appearance on a wanted ad on a milk carton, referring to Fry's disappearance after being frozen. This was an act of reciprocation for The PJs being etched onto a manhole cover in the episodes "I Second that Emotion" and "The Luck of the Fryrish", like the The PJs' opening scene.

In the South Park episode "Go God Go" (aired 1 November, 2006), Cartman is stuck in the snow and is buried by an avalanche and is defrosted 500 years later. Although not an explicit reference to Futurama, there is brief reference to cryogenics, and the name of the city "New New Hampshire" is familiar to other names of cities used in Futurama, like "New New York".

Also, in the Imaginationland specials, Bender, Fry, and Leela make cameo appearances on the good side of Imaginationland, where many good characters from shows, movies, and video games appear. Mom and the Robot Devil make similar appearances on the evil side of Imaginationland.

Live-action

During the intro for the 22 June, 2009 episode of The Colbert Report, Colbert's interview with author Simon Schama was headlined "Future-Schama", a pun on the name for Futurama.

When talking about the U.S. government not shutting down, Colbert was dismayed in his 11 April, 2011 episode (clip available to all but Canadian and British audiences) that all the countdowns on news channels were unemployed. He even had his own countdown, which he decided to repurpose for a countdown to another Futurama rerun, where he further specified that it would also work for rebroadcasts of his show, as, on Comedy Central, people are never more than an hour away from a Futurama rerun.

The relaunched Doctor Who contains a few possible references (or just similarities) to Futurama.

In the series 1 episode, "The Long Game" (aired 7 May, 2005), a character pretends to be a student at Mars University, to which a medical technician replies, "The Martian boondocks. Typical!"

The series 2 episode, "New Earth" (aired 15 April, 2006), which is set in the year five billion and twenty-three in the city of New New York. However, if the city had been more accurately named, it would in fact be "New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York" as it was the fifteenth New York.

New New York also appears in the series 3 episode, "Gridlock" (aired 14 April, 2007), which is set 30 years after "New Earth". It features a character called Thomas KincadeBrannigan, and has a similar skyline to Futurama. They also briefly refer to the regular New York as "Old New York", as do the 31st century characters in Futurama.

The series 5 episode, "The Beast Below" (aired 10 april, 2010), features a "Star Whale", a giant alien species living in the depth of space, and captured by the Starship UK to pilot it. The concept of a whale-like alien living alone in space is similar to that of the four-dimensional space whale in the Futurama episode "Möbius Dick".

Contestants in the Australian ABC1 quiz show The Einstein Factor choose a specialty on which to be quizzed during the first round. During episode ten of the 2005 season, a contestant chose Futurama as his specialty. He was the second placing of three contestants in the episode.

In the series Journeyman, in the episode "Emily" (aired 19 November, 2007), Dan Vasser travels back in time to the year 2001, and enters his own house and at that time, on a TV screen, a clip from "Parasites Lost" is seen and heard (Professor Farnsworth saying "Come on, let's all give Fry some privacy."). This means that he probably travelled to 21 January.

The Australian quiz show, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation, asks many popular culture questions.

On episode 9, aired 30 June 2009, in the round "Your Generation", a true or false question was asked: "Did Darren Shatner, the son of William Shatner, compose the theme song to Futurama?" Generation Y answered true and got the question wrong. Futurama's theme song was actually composed by Christopher Tyng.

On the episode aired 26 October 2010, Zoidberg was featured as a cut-out in the game "¡chronoloco!".

On Gears of War 2, released 7 November, 2008, in the special thanks section for the makers, Mikey Spano says That Guy's quote of "My one regret is that I have Boneitis!". John DiMaggio voices the franchise's main character Marcus Fenix and supporting character Franklin in the game.

In Halo 3, released 25 September, 2007, there is an easter egg called the "I Would Have Been Your Daddy" skull which makes characters say rare, weird, or uncommon dialog. One of the quotes that may be heard from the UNSC Marine Corps after killing an enemy is "He's pending for a bending!", a phrase which Bender has exclaimed on the rare occasion.

In Call of Duty: Black Ops, released 9 November 2010, Richard Nixon is a playable character in the zombie survival mode. Occasionally, he makes references to Futurama by saying things like "NIXON'S BACK!" and "AROOOO!"

MMORPG

During the final dialogue of the quest Troll Romance (released 5 January, 2005), Arrg says "This concept of 'love' confuses and infuriates Arrg." This is a reference to a quote said by Lrrr in the episode "Love and Rocket".

In the 100th quest, Recipe for Disaster (released 15 March, 2006), when the player is informed by Gypsy Aris that the universe could be destroyed, the player exclaims, "Not the whole universe! That's where I keep my stuff!", a quote originally appearing in Futurama.

Outside The Exodar, a small black cat called Nibblet can be seen walking around. This is probably a reference to Nibbler from Futurama.

In the Apothecarium area. there is a large, stitched together thing that periodically excretes a load of the green goo that fills the Canals. This is vaguely reminiscent of the Slurm Queen's behind in the episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory".

Various

The Simpsons is Matt Groening's other TV show. It easily references Futurama the most of all media because of this connection. This is a small sample of the references. For more, see it's main page.

In "Bart Gets Famous", there is a head in a jar in a dream about the future from Bart Simpson. This episode aired approximately 5 years and a month before Futurama started, on 3 February, 1994.

In Simpsons Comics #99 (published October, 2004), there is a cameo appearance by Bender.

In "Future-Drama", aired 17 April, 2005, Bender appears in the hovercar Homer Simpson and Bart are driving after crossing a "quantum tunnel". There are references to heads preserved in jars, Hovercars and cities similar to Futurama. Homer's under water house resembles one that Fry considers buying in "I, Roommate". The title, "Future-Drama", is an obvious reference to the title of Futurama itself.

In The Simpsons Game, released 30 October, 2007, Bender and Dr. Zoidberg are characters at the end of Level 15 - "5 Characters In Search Of an Author." Fry also appears in a painting from Matt Groening.